ABUJA – Federal Ministry of Agriculture has been queried by the Auditor-General of the Federation over an alleged N1.9 billion scam bordering on diversion of funds for the purchase of fertilizers.

The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA, to promote and strengthen mathematics and science subjects in the country.

In a bid to demobilise automotive sub-sector as exclusive right of illiterates in the country, the Federal Government has begun moves to entrench Automotive Engineering degree curriculum in Nigerian universities.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, Mr Deepak Singhal has announced his readiness to splash the sum of two million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira (N2.250m) worth of education scholarship for three heroic children that are expected to emerge at 2012 Indomie Independence Day Award for Heroes of Nigeria.

The five foreign based players named by Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, will not train with the team in Abuja, the Federal Capital, but will link up with the squad directly in Lima, the Peruvian capital.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria over alleged frustration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to inspect electoral documents in the governorship election petition tribunal in Adamawa State.

Nigerian lawmakers have begun to worry over the continued delay in the presentation of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the executive, which is believed to have created a huge vacuum and stunted growth in the country’s oil and gas industry.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Senate probe on the old pensions scheme known as Deferred Pensions scheme, which has unearthed massive fraud in the scheme, the Managing Director of Penman Pensions Limited, Mr. Wilson Ideva has assured contributors to the new Contributory Pensions Scheme, CPS, that their money is safe.

A member of the National Youth Service Corps, Oluwaseyi Oluwalade, serving in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, has donated 2,000 copies of customized Big Exercise books to 10 public primary schools in Akoko South/West Local Government Area of the state.

Barely two weeks after the death of an Italian soccer player, Mr. Piermario Morosini on the pitch, scientists have found that Left – Ventruclar Hyper-trabeculation, LVHT, a certain cardiomyopathies, (Chronic Disease of the heart muscle) to be more common in black, male athletes.